Places DrChopSuey Wants to Go

The saltiest lake in all of Crimea is also the pinkest of the pink and teeming with life.

The bones of this aquatic dinosaur turned to opal over the centuries and the beast's remains were almost sold as jewelry.

A former drinking water storage reservoir transformed into a sunken garden.

A rare specimen of an iconic extinct animal in downtown Sydney.

Ninety years of Sydney buses under one roof.

The statue honors an adventurous seafaring cat.

Woven tree art gives this towering Australian woodland a touch of mystical whimsy.

Australian Lake set aglow by Noctiluca Scintillans.

An abandoned railroad tunnel is now filled with bioluminescent bugs.

An Australian lake whose pink hue defies scientific explanation.

An exhibit of endangered species confiscated from smugglers and passengers.

In 2004, a Dave Matthews Band tour bus dumped 800 pounds of waste off a bridge and onto an unsuspecting tour boat below.

Partially submerged Buddha heads freckle Chicago’s neighborhoods.

G.V. Black, the Father of Modern Dentistry, keeps an eternal eye on Chicagoan’s teeth from his perch in Lincoln Park.

All of Chicago's wood-paved streets are long gone but two alleys remain.

A shining sculpture made of 3,115 lights, the number of visible stars in the Northern Hemisphere.

A little-known subterranean street runs under some of the best-known buildings in Chicago's River North.

This alley in downtown Chicago held the bodies of over 600 people after the fateful Iroquois Theatre fire.

A gothic church spire sits atop this skyscraper, the tallest church in the world.

Louis Sullivan’s dark, swirling cast-iron designs envelop a popular department store in this Chicago landmark.

The twin towers in this Chicago fountain use 50 foot tall video screens to spit on people.

A military museum and library dedicated to the citizen soldier.

Chicago’s last original drive-in restaurant is a family-run hot dog joint that started in 1948.

A relic of the Cold War in Chicago.